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Mythbuster: The truth about the unions | Red Pepper

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Mythbuster: The truth about the unions. As the Tories and their pals in the press ratchet up the anti-strike rhetoric, Red Pepper knocks down some of the myths they throw at the unions. MYTH: Unions strike at the first opportunity, without a thought for the consequences. Nobody takes the decision to strike lightly. Strikes are very expensive the cost to the unions of 30 November, including ballots, will be millions of pounds. Union members will sacrifice up to 100 million in pay altogether. Public sector w...

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Inside Left: October 2014

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A radical take on the world of sport - because it's too important to leave to Rupert Murdoch. Thursday, October 30, 2014. Dave Zirin is rightly renowned as a radical sportswriter. In the USA he is the. Sports correspondent of The Nation. His most recent book Brazil's Dance With The Devil. Is a powerfully written exposure of the negative consequences for Brazilian democracy of hosting both World Cup 2014 and the Rio Olympics. He was n. He also hosts his own weekly Sirius XM show,. Edge of Sports Radio.

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Inside Left: December 2014

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A radical take on the world of sport - because it's too important to leave to Rupert Murdoch. Tuesday, December 30, 2014. I Think Therefore I Play - An Anti-Racist Review. Martin Luther King once remarked: “The quality, not the longevity, of one's life is what is important.” The worthy sentiment certainly contains a degree of truth but it doesn’t quite explain Andrea Pirlo. The Italian is now in his 36. Appeared earlier this year is testament to this recognition. It allows Pirlo to tease out small detail...

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Inside Left: August 2014

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A radical take on the world of sport - because it's too important to leave to Rupert Murdoch. Tuesday, August 26, 2014. The Curious Contradiction of Joey Barton. This piece was originally written for my Beyond the Ninety. Column on Voom Football. If this was anybody else but Israel the West would intervene. It cannot continue. Innocent children being slaughtered. This must stop.”. Previously Barton has used social media to speak out against homophobia in football, racism in sport and quoted George Orwell...

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Inside Left: January 2015

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A radical take on the world of sport - because it's too important to leave to Rupert Murdoch. Wednesday, January 21, 2015. This Saturday is the 20th anniversary of Eric’s Selhurst Park Kung Fu kick assault on a supporter. Philosophy Football's. Mark Perryman celebrates a night when football took sides. This was an era when Blackburn and England’s Graeme Le Saux’s occasional reading of the. La Philosophie de Cantona. Absolutely epitomised all this, it survives, or I should say thrives, to this day, testam...

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Inside Left: Palestine at FIFA: What Happened?

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A radical take on the world of sport - because it's too important to leave to Rupert Murdoch. Tuesday, July 21, 2015. Palestine at FIFA: What Happened? To expel Israel from world football was. Never put to the delegates. As a “. Baffling display of confusion”. For those of us trying to understand what happened to the PFA motion, the waters were muddied by the toxic combination of institutional turmoil and the lack of transparency which characterises FIFA’s democratic practices. At length after his meetin...

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Inside Left: A Quiet Reflection on Steven Gerrard

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A radical take on the world of sport - because it's too important to leave to Rupert Murdoch. Wednesday, August 5, 2015. A Quiet Reflection on Steven Gerrard. Thank Shankly we don’t have to put up with any more of those eulogies. The close season has provided enough transfer drama to distract even the most misty-eyed of Gerrard fans. Yet as the Premier League gets underway it still seems strange that Stevie G won’t be running out at Anfield this season. 8220;In his prime, particularly in the mid-Noughtie...

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Inside Left: Run, Mo, Run – It’s the Daily Mail!

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A radical take on the world of sport - because it's too important to leave to Rupert Murdoch. Friday, July 3, 2015. Run, Mo, Run – It’s the Daily Mail! Paddy Power have done this. No surprise really. As befits an online bookmaker, they have form. Previous Paddy Power ads have played fast and loose with taste and decency thanks to their rampant sexism and the sort of nationalist sentiment that wouldn’t look out of place at a rally of the far-right. These people have nowhere to live,. Let them drown’.

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Inside Left: March 2015

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A radical take on the world of sport - because it's too important to leave to Rupert Murdoch. Sunday, March 8, 2015. Red Card Israeli Racism. Of all the many crimes perpetrated by the Israeli military during Operation Protective Edge. The euphemistic title given to last year’s barbarous assault on the Gaza Strip, one in particular stays in my mind. On the 17. July shells launched from a gunboat off the coast of Gaza, killing the four brothers who were playing football. Never even thought to ask. Israeli ...